When he's good, George is very very good. But there are also some big contradictions. One unfortunate contradiction seems to be in what George says about following what you “resonate” with. If you happen to “resonate” with any of a huge variety of techniques or spiritual teachers, it seems that, according to George, you are thereby being “marked” by hostile aliens for future slave labour camps or whatever and a future of the worst possible kind. Yet George also emphatically says to fully commit yourself to whatever it is you “resonate with”, as that leads you to truth. Can’t have it both ways, George. Of course, the whole notion that you can “download” something that will enslave your being sounds very extreme and like pure fear porn. And if you psychically protect yourself, I consider I know that can never happen. This is after all a free will planet. If you strongly say to yourself that you will only accept communication that respects your free will and only from beings who are beyond polarity, even that alone protects you. And you should indeed do it before meditating or going to sleep or watching TV and so on.

I’ve never seen any analysis or critical discussion of the whole concept of “resonating with”. Since George uses that concept freely and uncritically, here goes. Scientology and Inelia use the term “charge” to refer to a person’s being under the grip of a psychological complex, i.e., any hang-up or piece of their conditioning. Here “charge” actually means almost the same thing as “excitement”. What I’m saying is that most of the things most people “vibrate” to or “resonate to” or get excited by are the very things they need to break free of if they want to find happiness or spiritual liberation. This fact is very well-known indeed to anyone working in psychotherapy or any related field. There are endless examples of it, but here’s one. Many psychological studies and surveys suggest that a great majority of the population chooses as their spouse the person who they consider most closely resembles their opposite sex parent (or maybe the same sex parent, in the case of gays or lesbians). This is because subconsciously they want to finish their uncompleted business with that parent. Unfortunately, though, that doesn’t often if not usually work out well, as any experienced psychotherapist and a huge number of studies can tell you.

Unfortunately, in Western cultures, where particularly the advertising industry has created a gigantic conditioning campaign for people to believe that excitement is good, this fact is maybe harder to explain. But the truth is, the spiritually and emotionally fully mature and liberated person doesn’t dramatise any situation, doesn’t create or even need any major excitement, and doesn’t carry impulses that are somehow vibrating with the desire to latch onto the right “frequency” to “resonate with”.

A second possible meaning of “resonate with” is “feel very comfortable with”. Unfortunately, the way to spiritual liberation includes the need to frequently face up (non-judgmentally) to our own weaknesses and limitations and anything else about ourselves that we feel uncomfortable with. It also involves quite often putting ourselves into situations or new ways of behaving that we don’t feel comfortable with. Again, we see a meaning of “resonate with” that leads a person in the exact opposite direction from what the person needed. I can vouch that it is true, though, that once an individual has achieved great emotional maturity and has faced and worked through all of their layers of conditioning back to when they were born, that individual is different. For that individual, everything in life feels comfortable.

I appreciate that George supposes that following what you “resonate with” will lead you closer to your true self. The problem is, most people don’t have a clue who they really are. Until they find out, and in detail, they’ll be “resonating with” false identities, such as what their parents wanted them to be, and not with their true selves.

I also appreciate that George wants people to learn to listen to their intuition. But you don’t “resonate” to your intuition, for reasons two of which I’ve already described in detail. A person can’t usually even listen accurately to the still small “voice” of their intuition, either, unless they’ve learned how to detach it from their ego. It’s quite do-able. But that’s a whole other subject.

And I’m not for one moment disagreeing with George when he says to question everything and find your own truth. Nor am I saying it’s a good idea to fail to develop the intuition and listen to that. Just that you won’t find your deeper truth by “resonating”.